It was decided, that the plot should be put in execution at daylight; and, in the meantime, Greene went into Hudson's cabin to keep him company and prevent his suspicions from being excited.

The manner of effecting this massacre was worthy of the authors of such a plot.

Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit.

The Banian hospital at Surat is a most remarkable institution; it consists of a large plot of ground, enclosed with high walls, divided into several courts or wards, for the accommodation of animals; in sickness they are attended with the tenderest care, and find a peaceful asylum for the infirmities of age.

It occurred to him, for the moment, that this might be premonition of a disastrous accident, yet vaguely he sensed a plot, an obscure design that filled him with ghastly terror.

It is easy enough to plot action either before or after the need for it arises.

The plot is very simple.

Davus in Andria is but a rough sketch of Moliere's valet, and the whole plot is so bungling in comparison.

The doctrine of liberty rests on a faith drawn from the observation of human progress, that though we know wheat to be serviceable and tares to be worthless, yet there are in the great seed-plot of human nature a thousand rudimentary germs, not wheat and not tares, of whose properties we have not had a fair opportunity of assuring ourselves.

Thus, any one acquainted with his celebrated play of The Robbers, will readily recollect that the whole story is built upon the secondary plot in King Lear, between the Duke of Gloucester and his two sons; one of these who is a natural child, and a villain withal, contrives to poison the mind of the father, and to eject the legitimate son from his favour; it will be found exactly thus in Schiller's famous story of "The Robbers."

The best of these was Alexander and Campaspe, the plot of which is briefly as follows.

This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in a silver sea, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, England, bound in with the triumphant sea!

Love's Labour's Lost was a play of manners, with hardly any plot.

Thus Cymbeline is, in its fortunate ending, really as much of a comedy as Winter's Taleto which its plot bears a resemblanceand is only technically a tragedy because it contains a violent death.

It is characteristic of Shakspere that he invented the plot of none of his plays, but took material that he found at hand.

There is a distinct plot to it, the situation is extremely ludicrous, and the emphasis is laid upon a single humor or eccentricity, as in some of Molière's lighter comedies, like Le Malade Imaginaire, or Le Médecin malgré lui.

Of course she's only a kid now, but you can plot her curve easy.

Then here comes this letter from him which will expose him as the head of a great plot.

Some of those to whom he applied said that they would unite with him in his plot provided he would get Marcus Brutus to join them.

[Sidenote: Artemidorus discovers the plot.

He had contrived to learn something of the plot from some of the conspirators who were his pupils.

The conclusion is almost forced upon us that a Cabinet intrigue, of which the President was kept in ignorance, was being carried on, under the very eyes of Mr. Buchanan, by those whom he himself significantly calls "the extremists"a plot to supersede his own intentions and make him falsify his own declarations.

A plot for an uprising could scarcely be devised and communicated to twenty individuals before some one of them, to save the life of a favorite master or mistress, would divulge it.

This is the rule; and the slave revolution in Hayti was not an exception to it, but a case occurring under peculiar circumstances, The gunpowder plot of British history, though not connected with slaves, was more in point.

In that case, only about twenty were admitted to the secret; and yet one of them, in his anxiety to save a friend, betrayed the plot to that friend, and, by consequence, averted the calamity.